We may not be able to give the proposed meeting "frequent editorial notice;" still the probabilities are that we shall allude to it if we live and do well, and we shan't charge Susan a cent 272 for our services.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Through him the commonplace individual forced his way from the spectators' benches to the stage itself; the mirror in which formerly only great and bold traits found expression now showed the painful exactness that conscientiously reproduces even the abortive lines of nature.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They would get on a car when the conductor was not looking, and hide in the crowd; and three times out of four he would not ask for their fares, either not seeing them, or thinking they had already paid; or if he did ask, they would hunt through their pockets, and then begin to cry, and either have their fares paid by some kind old lady, or else try the trick again on a new car.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Thus was Babylon conquered for the second time: and Dareios when he had overcome the Babylonians, first took away the wall from round their city and pulled down all the gates; for when Cyrus took Babylon before him, he did neither of these things: and secondly Dareios impaled the leading men to the number of about three thousand, but to the rest of the Babylonians he gave back their city to dwell in: and to provide that the Babylonians should have wives, in order that their race might be propagated, Dareios did as follows (for their own wives, as has been declared at the beginning, the Babylonians had suffocated, in provident care for their store of food):—he ordered the nations who dwelt round to bring women to Babylon, fixing a certain number for each nation, so that the sum total of fifty thousand women was brought together, and from these women the present Babylonians are descended. 160.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Saepe plûrîs hôrâs 9 ad mare sedet quô 9 melius fluctûs et nâvîs spectet.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Compression is particularly helpful when sending or receiving text, for example news stories and messages in conferences.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Before the flame Eurymachus now stands, And turns the bow, and chafes it with his hands Still the tough bow unmoved.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Nay, the doors are fast enough: Now, sir, I will make you confess your treachery.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

For example, nauta , sailor , is masculine and belongs to the first declension.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Henceforth, the most ordinary composer, the very student in the lecture-room, is able to write with a precision, a grace, or a copiousness, as the case may be unknown before the date [pg 323] of the authors whom he imitates, and he wonders at, if he does not rather pride himself on, his novas frondes, et non sua poma.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

By noon, the time we landed for fuel, every Washington correspondent for every news service had a little different story for his boss, the White House was practically besieged at the mere rumor that the President was to issue a statement, and the State Department was going quietly mad.
— from Cue for Quiet by T. L. Sherred

I give each cocher what is right; I know, without profound researches, What I must pay for each new sight— Cathedrals, castles, convents, churches.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 107, September 22nd, 1894 by Various

Truly, as Monsieur Gabriel had said, her voice belonged by right to the shadowy cathedrals, for each note seemed a sacred thing, a homage to God, and itself deserving to be worshipped in reverent devotion.
— from A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

If all persons who settle among the natives would, as far as it is in their power and comes within their province induce, by making it a rule of their house or family, every native servant to sit on a stool or chair; eat at a table instead of on the ground; eat with a knife and fork (or begin with a spoon) instead of with their fingers; eat in the house instead of going out in the yard, garden, or somewhere else under a tree or shed; and sleep on a bed, instead of on a bare mat on the ground; and have them to wear some sort of a garment to cover the entire person above the knees, should it be but a single shirt or chemise, instead of a [Pg 337] loose native cloth thrown around them, to be dropped at pleasure, at any moment exposing the entire upper part of the person—or as in Liberia, where that part of the person is entirely uncovered—I am certain that it would go far toward impressing them with some of the habits of civilized life, as being adapted to them as well as the "white man," whom they so faithfully serve with a will.
— from Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin Robison Delany

Que le confident de la nature develope le prodige de la greffe des arbres—c’est assez pour Virgile de l’exprimer en deux beaux vers— “Exiit ad cœlum ramis felicibus arbos, Miraturque novas frondes et non sua poma 435 .”
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

ARRANGING the following examples, not so much in chronological sequence as in elucidation of special facts, I will first give some cases of venomous serpents killing themselves and each other.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley